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• It has a retractable roof.

• On a hot Phoenix day, most people like to hang around the pool and still like to see how their favorite team is doing.  Now you can do both.  Bank One Ballpark has a pool in right field about four hundred fifteen feet from home plate.

• The ballpark holds 49,033 fans if the stadium is packed.

• They bought the property from William Waldorf Astor for 675,000 dollars.

• At the first game 74,200 fans packed the new stadium.

Fenway Park

• It opened on April 20, 1912.

• The wall in left field is nicknamed the green monster.

• The wall is 60.5 feet tall.

• The first game was played on April 11, 2000.

• The attendence for the first game was 40,930.

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